The war that changed the American social landscape forever also affected its physical one. Revisit some of the most famous battlefields in American Civil War history, and how they look today. Gettysburg An early photograph of Little Rou...

Apple just added a ton of new emoji to its roster (including, finally, racially diverse emoji), but we're still waiting on a few more. Where are the cupcakes? Where are the shot glasses? Come on, Tim Cook! How do these not already exist?...

To make it through 2015 without going into crippling default, Venezuela must break promises that made it possible for late President Hugo Chavez to build a strong relationship with Latin American and Caribbean nations largely forgotten b...

MOSCOW (AP) — Two of Russia's best-known movie directors are aiming to create a chain of fast-food restaurants that would be an alternative to Western-style operations such as McDonald's. The move by Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalov...

This past Friday morning, I woke up at 2:45 am just so I could preorder the Apple Watch , which went on sale at 3 am. Despite my efforts of waking up early and constantly refreshing the Apple Store web page, I still have to wait well o...

The War Against Boko Haram (Part 3) Watch Part 1: http://bit.ly/1af1cIz Watch Part 2: http://bit.ly/1FtEtGP Since 2009, the militant Islamist group known as Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in northern Nigeria. Instilling terror... From: VIC...

2015 Kia Sedona SX | Driven: Car Review | The New York Times Families have been filling their driveways with crossovers, but minivans, like Kia's new Sedona, still offer a lot of utility. Produced by: Tom Voelk/Driven Read the story ...

After more than 120,000 people signed a White House petition, the administration announced support for bans on conversion therapy, a largely discredited practice that attempts to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of LGBT p...

Houston Mayor Annise Parker: Leading Lady | msnbc When Annise Parker was first elected mayor of Houston in 2009, people balked that a deep south city was the first to elect an openly gay Mayor. Texans weren't--they had already electe...

The United States has bunker-busting bombs that can shut down, set back and destroy Iran's nuclear program, and the military option has not been taken off the table when it comes to the ongoing negotiations with that country, according t...

How will the Russian middle class react to the effects of low oil prices, Western sanctions and deep-set economic problems, a state of affairs that some economists have dubbed the “triple whammy”? Unfortunately, these problems are only p...

Raw SC dashcam video: 'I just shot somebody' Newly released raw dashcam video reveals some of the conversation that took place in the moments following the fatal shooting of a South Carolina man by an officer. From: USA TODAY Vie...

Known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," the ADX maximum security prison in Florence Colorado is home to some of the most violent criminals in US history. The ADX opened in 1994 to fill the void left by the now-shuttered penit...

The first Apple Watch reviews came out this week, and they weren't great . Reviewers did praise the design and the way it lets you leave your phone in your pocket more, and blogger John Gruber had a great non-cynical take on t...

Ben Crenshaw seemed as credible a source as any. The 63-year-old Masters legend had just finished his final round of competition at Augusta National on Friday evening, walking away from a tournament he had played 44 times. And so it seem...

Liverpool (AFP) - Leighton Aspell rode Many Clouds to land Saturday's Grand National which followed his success last year in the Aintree marathon on Pineau de Re. Trained by Oliver Sherwood and owned by Trevor Hemmings, Many Clouds was g...

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations' refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp -- the world's largest -- to Somalia, or "we shall relocate them ourselves."

Augusta (United States) (AFP) - Jordan Spieth carried a five-stroke lead into Masters weekend on Saturday, aiming to convert two days of inspired golf into a first major title at the tender age of 21. The Texan has set Augusta National a...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands on Friday at a summit in Panama, a symbolically charged gesture as the pair seek to restore ties between the Cold War foes. A photograph showed Ob...

Formal summit session starts late President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak fifth, while a highly anticipated speech President Raul Castro, who is representing communist Cuba at the summit for the first time, comes near the end of the...

As sophisticated as modern medicine has become, the best method available to doctors to insert a catheter is still to use their own two hands, a needle and some wire. Hugo Guterman, an engineer at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, wants t...

After a late-night handshake and an exchange of pleasantries, Presidents Obama and Raul Castro were expected Saturday to sit down to an extended face-to-face meeting, the first such encounter between the United States and Cuba in more th...

Since 1999, 34 states have seen “at least a modest decline” in their prison populations, but 16 have recorded upswings, according to new data released by the Sentencing Project that demonstrate incarceration rates vary dramatically betwe...

WEIMAR, Germany (AP) — Buchenwald survivor Henry Oster recalls thinking that a fellow inmate had "lost his sense of reality" when he said 70 years ago Saturday that the concentration camp was being liberated, bringing an end to the long ...

Cuban dissidents clash with Castro supporters Tensions are high between Cuban protesters pushing for democracy and supporters of Raul Castro during the VII Summit of the Americas. From: CNN Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 02:11 More in News &am...

In this excerpt from British journalist of Russian heritage Peter Pomerantsev 's book " Nothing is True and Everything is Possible ," he describes what it's like to attend a modern day "gold digger academy" in Russi...

Hillary Clinton is gearing up to announce her presidential campaign, perhaps as soon as this weekend . So we're republishing our 1993 cover story on the soon-to-be candidate, published just a month after the Clintons entered the White Ho...

Video captures chaotic brawl in Walmart parking lot The Cottonwood, Arizona police department released a video that appears to show an officer shooting a man. Police say a chaotic brawl broke out between police and members of the Gaver f...

Polling stations opened in Nigeria Saturday for the final stage of a historic election cycle with voters returning to the polls to elect governors and other state representatives. The concluding phase comes just two weeks after President...

"Houston, we've had a problem." Those words were uttered 45 years ago by American astronaut Jack Swigert after an explosion on the Apollo 13 mission to the moon. The explosion of an oxygen tank on April 13, 1970, when the vessel was near...

Colbert King, Washington Post Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, writing about Iran in the New Jersey Jewish Standard on April 1, sought to alter perspectives on that country with some speculation about race. Imagine if Ayatollah Ali [Khamenei] was...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A man accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack on a Kansas military base to help the Islamic State group is mentally ill and was acting strangely days before his arrest, according to a Muslim cleric who said he was c...

Margolis, Bloomberg View Earlier this week, a stealth protestor dropped a handful of rodents on the floor of a congressional committee room in Brasilia where lawmakers were grilling a ruling party apparatchik accused of raiding the state...

Experts examine both traditional pathways in higher education as well as less traditional routes for students to learn about and prepare for careers in public and foreign policy as part of the 2015 Conference on Diversity in Internationa...

Today in "memos you wish you didn't need to send," Attorney General Eric Holder penned a reminder to all Department of Justice employees that soliciting prostitutes is a no-no. "I want to reiterate to all Department personnel, including ...

Mourners are expected to gather Saturday in Summerville, S.C., to remember Walter Scott, the 50-year-old black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North Charleston.

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Mourners are expected to gather Saturday in Summerville, South Carolina to remember Walter Scott, the 50-year-old black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North ...

The Vatican is facing accusations of homophobia after failing to deny claims that France’s new choice of ambassador to the Holy See has effectively been rejected because of his sexuality. Laurent Stefanini, the openly gay diplomat ...

Buchenwald survivor Henry Oster recalls thinking that a fellow inmate had "lost his sense of reality" when he said 70 years ago Saturday that the concentration camp was being liberated, bringing an end to the long ordeal of the...

Pierre Atlas, Indianapolis Star The nuclear framework agreement reached in Lausanne, Switzerland last week between Iran and the "P5 plus 1" (the UN Security Council permanent members United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom and Franc...

Keith Ellison, New York Times WASHINGTON — AYAN HASAN works as a medical professional in Minnesota to support her family in Somalia. Her mother, stepmother, six siblings and her blind uncle depend on her remittances, the money she ...

Fidelia Rodriguez looks at photos of the Smith family, the Americans who once owned the home she has lived in all her life. She lives behind the big house where the Smiths raised their children, a property now owned by the Cuban state. H...

Carla Harris launches the 2015 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs with a keynote address following a welcome message by James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council o...

The final crunch ahead of the March 31 deadline for a framework agreement between the P5+1 and Iran on a comprehensive nuclear deal turned into a week of high drama that continued two days after the deadline.

A car bomb explosion that slightly injured seven people on the popular resort island of Samui in southern Thailand may be linked to the country's political turmoil, a spokesman for the military government said Saturday. … Click to ...

Insurgents bombarded a government-held part of Syria's second city Aleppo overnight, killing at least five people, a group monitoring the war said. State TV broadcast pictures is showing heavily damaged buildings and streets strewn with ...

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has called on prospective voters and all citizens to ensure Saturday’s gubernatorial election is peaceful and devoid of intimidation and harassment. Reuben Abati, spokesman for President Jonathan, sa...

Steven Metz, World Politics Review Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a diplomatic framework designed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Opposition to the negotiations in Washington, which was intense all along,...

Nigerians are voting for state governors and assemblies in elections Saturday in which the opposition hopes to make gains following its victory that unseated President Goodluck Jonathan two weeks ago. … Click to Continue »

A court in the Maldives has sentenced a former defense minister to 10 years in prison on charges of detaining a senior judge, the same case in which a former president has also been jailed in a trial widely criticized as politically moti...

A car bomb on the Thai resort island of Samui has wounded seven people, including an Italian girl, police said Saturday, in a further blow to the country’s tarnished reputation as a top tourist destination. The bomb, packed inside ...